US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Feb. 24 for "Automatic focus control device, operation method of automatic focus control device, operation program of automatic focus control device, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,293, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automatic focus control device, operation method of automatic focus control device, operation program of automatic focus control device, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Hinako Suzuki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus performs focusing calculation for calculating a focusing position of a focus lens based on a signal for calculation read out from an imaging element. A focus adjustment unit includes a setting unit and a focusing calculation unit. A detection unit detects, from a signal for image generation, a rectangular region incl...